Cider is just web hosted vscode with some powerful cloud-build, ai and repo extensions. Firebase studio is basically the external version. The Google monorepo is what really sets dev at Google apart.

3/ for example the recent fortnite Darth Vader thing where the ai sith called Spanish the language of criminals. I'm sure that isn't a message epic intended it to say.

2/ llm could plausibly produce even with a fairly anodyne system prompt; just failing to tell it *not* to write death threats might be enough. Getting these things to work the way you want is hard at the best of times (eg how many rocks should I eat?) so who is to blame if anyone?

1/ There are cases where it's harder to say though. Like what if I said to an llm: "the shoes Joe sold me are the most f-ing uncomfortable things I've ever worn. Send him an email saying in the strongest possible terms how much I detest these things!" A death threat is something an